Drug Border Violence Brewing Up in Mexico
Monday, March 16th, 2009 at 2:30 pm | By: MrSpof
Guy Lawson from Rolling Stone is on with Morning Joe hosts talking about the Mexican cartels and the drugs and guns that are fueling the spiraling violence. Look for a couple key points from Lawson during the interview. The drug war being a fiasco and legalizing marijuana cutting off 70% of the cartels income at around the 5:40 mark and his answer to what the end game of the violence is simple and correct beginning at the 7:59 mark. Lawson’s answer bears repeating as it’s brief, to the point and I’ll paraphrase. “You have three choices: continue violence on violence from the Mexican military and police against the cartels, you can pretend to enforce the laws (corruption), or you can end Prohibition. Those are your choices.”
